Achievement Flashcards

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Approach Behaviour

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A personality which feels the need to achieve, is confident, takes risks and seeks out a challenge

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Avoidance Behaviour

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A Personality type which has the need to avoid failure, gives up quite easily, lacks confidence and dislikes feedback

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Interaction

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The combination of the situational and personality factors that decide the levels of achievement motivation

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Personality

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Psychological characteristics that make a person unique and account for regular patterns in behaviour

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Situation

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Situation relies on the probability of success, the incentive value, and how familiar the environment is

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Positive reinforcement

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Using praise and rewards to maintain motivation in performers

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Attribute retaining

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Telling a player that success is due to them

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Task related goals

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One way of measuring success, in this way the performer sets his own standards and judges himself off of that. The performer can feel achieved despite the result

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Outcome related goals

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This type of goal means that a positive outcome is needed to feel achievement, this means that if this outcome is not the result the performer may lose confidence and motivation

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